Apples In Stereo Show You How to Control a Moog With Your Brain

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I was pretty sure that it wasn’t possible for me to love the Colorado-based Elephant 6 pop-psych group The Apples in Stereo any more than I already do. And then lead singer Robert Schneider has to come along and create something like this–a mind-controlled Moog synthesizer.
Not just a mind-controlled Moog synthesizer–a homemade mind-controlled Moog synthesizer (not that there are any other kind, I suppose). Schneider pulled apart Mattel’s awesome MindFlex brainwave-controlled board game and hooked it up to an analog synth to form the “Teletron.” Of course it’s named that. What else would it be named?
Judging by Schneider’s video demonstration, the Teletron doesn’t have a lot going for it musically, at the moment–the demo mostly involves the musician adjusting pitch up and down by thinking. Knowing Schneider, however, the instrument will no doubt be mastered in time to feature it on the next Apples in Stereo record.
Instructions for making the Teletron can be found here.